Had
to fight nothing ... Chris Hemsworth in a scene in Snow White and the Huntsman
battles computer generated trolls. Supplied by Universal Source:
AP
Caris Bizzaca, The Daily Telegraph, reports
With Thor, The Avengers and Snow White and the Huntsman under his belt, he’s approaching being an action movie veteran.
As the Huntsman in Snow White and the Huntsman, Australian Hollywood star Chris Hemsworth has to go up against a computer-generated (CG) troll, which meant he was literally fighting thin air in the shoot.
"Obviously (the CG troll) didn't exist when we were there and I was running around in the river, kind of swinging at nothing,'' he says.
"That's when you feel ridiculous.
"It's like ``oh, woah'' (pretends to fight) and
there's nothing there.''
It was entertaining for his co-star, Twilight's Kristen Stewart, though.
"We got to respond to very real things the whole time and then that one day, he was flailing around at nothing. It was very funny,'' she says.
Snow White and the Huntsman is a dark and visually stunning new take on the classic fairytale and Hemsworth says the troll scene was one of many highlights for them watching it for the first time.
He says a lot of people made a big deal about this being Rupert Sanders' first feature film, but he was never concerned, having seen Sanders' award-winning work in commercials for campaigns like Halo 3.
''(From the) commercial work I'd seen I thought, ok he's a talented visual director, but what I noticed in all of it was he knew how to tell a story, with some real heart and truth and characters,'' he says.
''(We) knew he was going to do something pretty special.''
Sanders says it was about three years ago that he actively starting looking for a feature film to tackle.
"Then this came along and ... I got really excited about the opportunity to make a big historical epic, with very modern characters, and a very modern retelling of it really,'' he says.
The result is a Snow White film that has the apple, the dwarfs and the evil queen, but also trolls, fairies, armies and a Snow White who wears chain mail and leads a rebellion.
Stewart says she appreciated that even with the differences, she could still recognise Snow White in it.
"It wasn't so intentionally trying to be this like, I don't know how to say it, like gruff, like action movie,'' she says.
"It was so rooted in a world that I completely believed in and I think that she became a really awesome representation of a strong woman and not like some weird imitation of a guy.''
The filmmakers were originally looking for an unknown to play Snow White, until Sanders met with Stewart in New Orleans, where she was filming the last Twilight movie.
Sanders, who hadn't seen the Twilight movies when he met Stewart, felt like something clicked.
"There's something so spirited about her and she's really got the weight of the world on her shoulders and she carries it very, very well for someone so young,'' he says.
"And I think all of those elements to me are what this contemporary version of Snow White should have.''
Sanders says he sees Snow White as almost like a female Luke Skywalker.
"She's the rise of a hero and I think, you know the Skywalker story is taken from fairytales, and this is the fairytale taking the fairytale back in a way,'' he says.
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